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Tennessee History Web Quest


Write your answers in complete sentences.
Part 1
http://www.tnhistoryforkids.org/cities/knoxville
1. Who was the first governor of Tennessee?
2. What is the name of the treaty Blount negotiated with the Cherokee? What was
the long term result of the treaty?
3. Who was the city of Knoxville named after?
http://www.tnhistoryforkids.org/places/cumberland_gap
4. How many people do historians estimate walked, rode, or were carried through
the Cumberland Gap?
5. Who migrated through the Cumberland Gap long before humans?
6. The Cumberland Gap was a converging point for what two major pioneering
routes?
http://www.scenictrace.com/about-the-trace/
7. The Natchez Trace bisected the traditional homelands of what three Native
American nations?
8. In 1801 President Thomas Jefferson designated the Trace a national postal road
for the delivery of mail between what two cities?
9. How was the Natchez Trace road used in the early 1800s through the mid-1820s?
http://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/entry.php?rec=698
10. What area did the Jackson Purchase include?
11. Who originally occupied the Jackson Purchase?
http://www.tnhistoryforkids.org/people/john_sevier
12. Who is known as the Father of Tennessee? What state was he a governor for
before Tennessee?
http://www.tnhistoryforkids.org/geography/a_2
13. How many rivers does the state of Tennessee contain? Name the 3 major rivers.
http://www.tnhistoryforkids.org/geography/b_5

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14. Why are rivers more important to our ancestors than to us?
15. Most Tennesseans live in a community that was put there because of what?
16. What two rivers do the Tennessee and Cumberland rivers flow into?
17. Why is the Mississippi River not Tennessees western boundary?
18. The Tennessee River was vital to what Native American tribe?
19. How did the state of Tennessee and the Tennessee River both get their names?
20. What was the most important business along the Cumberland River that led to
the growth of Nashville?
http://www.tnhistoryforkids.org/places/state_of_franklin
21. Why is it called the lost state?
22. Who was governor of the State of Franklin?
23. When and why was the state established? Be specific in your explanation.

24. If it had been approved, Franklin would have been admitted to the US as state
number ____.
25. What other individuals were involved in the foundation?

Part 2 Review:
http://www.tnhistoryforkids.org/places/fort_loudoun
1. In what modern-day Tennessee County was Fort Loudoun located?
2. What colony was Tennessee apart of during the 1750s?
3. Why was Fort Loudoun built?
4. Why were the Cherokee chiefs receptive to the fort being built?
5. What led to the conflict between the colonists at Fort Loudoun and the Cherokee?
6. What happened after Paul Demere surrender Fort Loudoun?
http://www.tnhistoryforkids.org/places/sycamore_shoals

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7. Why did the settlers in east Tennessee meet at Sycamore Shoals to form the
Watauga Association?
8. What famous settler wanted to negotiate with the Cherokee for the purchase of
land that now makes up Middle Tennessee?
9. What is the name of the Cherokee chief who did not want to sell the land that
makes up part of Middle Tennessee?
10. What purchase started the war between settlers living in Northeast Tennessee
and the Cherokee warriors?
http://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/entry.php?rec=1137
11. What is the name of the famous Tennessean who was one of the leaders of the
Watauga settlement? Why did he move to land west of the Appalachian Mountains?
http://www.alamancebattlegroundfriends.com/history.html
12. What were the names of the two sides that fought in the Battle of Almanance?
13. What were the concerns of the Regulators?
http://www.tn4me.org/minor_cat.cfm/minor_id/79/major_id/25/era_id/3
14. Who were the first colonial people to come to Tennessee?
15. Why were they called long hunters?
16. Who was the first person to move to Tennessee and settle there?
http://www.history.com/topics/wilderness-road
17. What is the Wilderness Road?
18. Why did Daniel Boone first travel through Tennessee? What happened on his
first attempt?
http://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/entry.php?rec=1243
19. Who was Thomas Sharp Spencer? How did other people from that time describe
him?
http://www.virginiaplaces.org/settleland/thomaswalker.html
20. What was Dr. Thomas Walker the first to do?

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